“We really don’t have … the in-house capabilities to answer all the questions,” the Pentagon’s deputy director for advanced computing, Roy Campbell, told Breaking Defense. “We’re really going to have to ‘phone out’ to all these assets” that the private sector plans to build.
“So the decision at the DMAG will be, should that be a single service, or [does] every service just buy what they want, right?” Heidi Shyu told reporters about the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
"A path that I proposed is linking that together to show a portfolio of capabilities," Heidi Shyu said about a new AUKUS announcement. "So that will be coming out soon.”
“The establishment of these roles within Research & Engineering better positions our team to execute upon our mission of preserving our nation’s technological edge, now and into the future,” Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said.
“Microelectronics are vital to every aspect of our lives from delivering power to our homes to securing our nation's infrastructure,” said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary for research and engineering.
Spearheaded by Heidi Shyu, the strategy will seek investments and concentrated efforts on 14 critical technology areas.
Standoff capability means warfighters stay connected and remain remotely located in a safer environment while making it harder for adversaries to target them.